Hi, Some comments and a question.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:42:50PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:34:34PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > > > On 17.9.2013, at 15:56, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I see the same problem. But I think this might be an Emacs issue; I > > > can't open a pdf from dired either (with & on a pdf file). However I > > > can open it if I execute a shell command: M-! xdg-open file.pdf RET. > > It's strange though. I'll try to investigate. I can consistently repeat this outside of Org. I am trying with `dired-do-shell-command'. Steps: 1) (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open" nil '("file.pdf")), the script runs and opens the pdf file. 2) (dired-do-shell-command "xdg-open &" nil '("file.pdf")), this runs the script too but the pdf is not opened. (I know the scripts run because I turned on debugging in the scripts) I'm assuming Org opens it asynchronously. What lisp function does Org use? A weekly related issue: when following links to pdf files, I have the same problem. When following https links I have no issues, they open in my web browser as expected. Does org use a similar mechanism when following links? Any thoughts? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.